Who is Bill Ayers?

What about his wife, Bernadine Dohrn? What is their relationship with Barrack Obama and why should we care?

William Charles "Bill" Ayers was born December 26, 1944 in a suburb of Chicago. in the 1960's he became deeply involved in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The SDS Constitution describes the organization as:

Students for a Democratic Society is an association of young people on the left. It seeks to create a sustained community of educational and political concern: one bringing together liberals and radicals, activists and scholars, students and faculty.

But SDS did not go far enough for Ayers. By 1969, he had become a part of the Weather Underground, a violent offshoot of the SDS with the goal of overthrowing the US government and replacing it with a dictatorship of the proletariat, aka a Marxist regime.

Update on VA lawsuit against Healthcare Law

Thank you Conservative Girl for posting this letter from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. As I reported on May 26, the Obama administration is filing for dismissal of VA's lawsuit arguing the constitutionality of the Healthcare law. Mr. Cuccinelli explains what is going on better than I can.

Dear My Fellow Virginians,

I am writing you tonight to make sure you know of an important development in Virginia's case against the federal healthcare law. Today, Virginia filed its brief in opposition to the federal government's attempt to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit against the new federal healthcare law.


While it's over two months since we first filed this suit - in legal terms, this case is moving at a lightning pace!


The US responded to our lawsuit with a motion to dismiss the case - which we fully expected.


Below is a simple but thorough chart which identifies the US's arguments in the case, and explains our response to each one. I would encourage all of you to take a look - and let me know your thoughts!

Financial Reform Bill

Back on April 15 I blogged about the Financial Reform Bill. This monstrosity from Frank and Dodds is getting closer to being law and yet very little is being reported about it. Here's a quick tour of what's in it. It is over 1300 pages, so I (and most of those in Congress) have not read the whole thing. This bill could be more dangerous than the Health Care Law.

-The bill creates the Financial Services Oversight Council (FSOC), a massive new agency within Treasury Dept. This agency will have the power to force financial institutions under its supervision without even requiring the approval of congress (not that their approval means anything anymore). This is seizure of private property by the Executive Branch...creepy.

-Sec 113 also gives the Treasury "Authority to require supervision and regulation of certain nonbank financial companies" and creates a Too-big-to-fail class of businesses "if the Council determines that material financial distress at the U.S. nonbank financial company would pose a threat to the financial stability of the United States."

Obama cracks down on emissions by fiat

No congressional review. No vote. Yesterday, America's Dictator-in-chief announced the new National Fuel Efficiency Policy.

For the first time ever, these new CAFE standards take aim at trucks. You know, the rigs that move America.

Obama is also calling for more electric vehicles. Apparently, BO has forgotten (or not) that most of our electricity comes from burning coal, an industry he has long planned to bankrupt. If this keeps up, it looks like we'll all be riding horses by 2017. That is, until DHS takes your hay field.

Healthy Choices Act and Rachael Ray?

The Healthy Choices Act was introduced last week by Rep. Kind (D- WI) and seems to be Michelle O's pet project now. The bill would give federal grants to the states and in return for the grants, the states would be required to submit the Body Mass Index (BMI) of all children ages 2-18 to the federal government.

This is another infringement upon privacy rights in this country. I think it is also an attack on our right to privacy in our medical records, which, incidentally the government is pushing to have placed in national databases. They are nudging us down that slippery slope, but that is a whole other story.

Frankly, it's none of the government's business how much my kids weigh or what we choose to eat. Yes, obesity is a problem in this country. A problem seen most often in the underclass the government has created!

Now celebrity chef Rachael Ray is joining the crusade for more government involvement. I ask you, what qualifies Michelle O and Rachael Ray to lecture the rest of us about Body Mass Index?




For more on healthy choices, go take the photographic tour of my vegetable garden.

Obama Attacks Free Speech

I'm sitting here over my first cup of coffee and I still can't get over Obama's comments about information from his commencement address at Hampton University.



First of all, Mr. President, America is a representative republic, not a democracy.

We are "bombarded with information, some of which doesn't rank that high on the truth meter." So is it his job to save us from untruths? How about all the lies that stream from his administration. They think we little people can't get ourselves health care, we are too dumb to pick our own financial products, and now we are unable to sort through what is true or false?

Information is a distraction?

Or is the truth distracting from Obama's efforts to "fundamentally transform" this country?

In a commencement address at Hampton University this past weekend, Obama called information "a distraction, diversion". I was looking for, but could not find, the clip of that part alone, but please take the time to fast forward and listen to 7:50-8:40. It was downright chilling.



It sounds to me as though Obama plans to save us all from that distraction. Can you say regulation of the internet and cable TV?

More to come on that when I can wrap my brain around it.



I'm also doing some research on Obama's Supreme Court pick, Elena Kegan. Look for a post on it soon.